Subject: Re: a new KNF (and some comments)
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Christian E. Hopps <chopps@merit.edu>
List: tech-misc
Date: 01/21/2000 22:15:18
seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) writes:

> In message <200001210852.RAA07481@srapc342.sra.co.jp>, Noriyuki Soda writes:
> >As far as I can say, it is not so inefficent.
> >And keeping solid ABI is, what OS vendor should do.
> 
> Up to a point, I agree - but this is a lot less severe than the a.out/ELF
> switch.  So, perhaps for a while we provide an "old" libc.

This argument continues but I'm wondering: ``Do we even have any of these
whacko prototypes in our ABI?''  Its not worth arguing about how we
might screw our users if we won't. :)

I was under the impression that one was supposed _avoid_ using < int
sized types, all the time, precisely becuase of the __P() lossage.

Chris.